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Definition of Darken

1. Verb. Become dark or darker. "The sky darkened"

2. Verb. Tarnish or stain. "A scandal that darkened the family's good name"

3. Verb. Make dark or darker. "Darken a room"

Definition of Darken

1. v. t. To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.

2. v. i. To grow or darker.

Definition of Darken

1. Verb. (transitive) To make dark or darker by reducing light. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To become dark or darker (having less light). ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To make dark or darker in colour. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To become dark or darker in colour. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To render gloomy, dark(er) of mood ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive) To become gloomy, dark of mood ¹

7. Verb. (transitive) To blind, impair eyesight ¹

8. Verb. (intransitive) To be blinded, loose clear vision ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Darken

1. to make dark [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: dark

Lexicographical Neighbors of Darken

dark meats dark nebula dark reaction dark red dark sleeper dark sleepers dark space dark spaces dark t2 lesion dark yellow

darkcore darke darked darken (current term) darken somebody's door darken somebody's doorstep darken somebody's doorway darken someone's door darken someone's doorstep darken someone's doorway

darkened darkener darkeners darkeness darkening darkens darker darkest

Literary usage of Darken

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Italian and English Dictionary with Pronunciation and Brief Etymologies by August Hjalmar Edgren, Giuseppe Bico, John Lawrence Gerig (1901)
"blacken (darken) ; tarnish ; INTE., REFL. : grow black ; darken, -rl- túra, F. : blackness. an nessi, FRET, of -neuere, ..."

2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... tarnish, stigmatize (rare or literary), blot, blur, spot, cloud, blacken, darken, defile, foul, smirch, defame, asperse (rare), denigrate (rare), ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1834)
"I thought on the glory, the sunshine of yore, When Hope rear'd her fairy-built piles to the view ; Then turn'd to the darken'd plain scowling before, ..."

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